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For anyone who is interested, the first RAnDOM (Rich ApplicatioN Developers Of Melbourne) user group meeting is tomorrow, 08/28, at 7:00 PM @ Goombay’s on A1A. We had to move it back from 08/21 to its new date due to Tropical Storm Faye. We will be covering creating mashups using jQuery and Google Maps and Charts. The code sample is available in the RAnDOM SVN repository. Check out the blog for more information on requirements to participate in coding and please RSVP on EventBrite if you intend to come out. Hope to see you all there!

After weeks of planning and months of picking a name, a few of us have finally put together a user group for the Brevard area. The group is called RAnDOM, Rich ApplicatioN Developers Of Melbourne. Our blog is located @ http://itsrandom.info. If you’re interested, you can see the cool layout that Sebastian put together for us.

My hope is that by bringing this group to Brevard we can begin to really grow the developer community in the area. We have an active .NET user group and Florida Creatives is getting started, but as far as coding goes, there aren’t that many opportunities to learn in a hands on way. At the Adogo, I really enjoyed our code camps these past few months, so I think that since we’re likely to start small, we can establish a great group by just hacking away. The area also seems to have a lot of web consulting companies, so maybe we can even a few of them to come out.

I really want a place to get together with fellow developers to code and discuss whatever may come over a cool beer and some wifi. If this is what does it, right on; if not, at least I still got a cold beer.